Six Things About God That Don’t Change- Week 3 Guide

God’s Faithfulness – Malachi 2:10-16

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Connecting question

Can you think of a time when someone’s faithfulness — to you, to a promise, or to God — made a big impact on your life? What happened?

Purpose

This week’s study invites us to explore how God’s faithfulness shapes our own faithfulness in relationships — especially in marriage, community, and covenant life with the Lord. The goal is not to assign blame but to offer understanding, healing, and hope in Christ.

Malachi 2:10-16 (NRSV)

¹⁰ Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors? ¹¹ Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. ¹² May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob anyone who does this — any to witness or answer, or to bring an offering to the Lord of hosts.

¹³ And this you do as well: You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor at your hand. ¹⁴ You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. ¹⁵ Did not one God make her? Both flesh and spirit are his. And what does the one God desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth. ¹⁶ For I hate divorce, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and covering one’s garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless.

Discussion Questions

1. How have you personally experienced God’s faithfulness in a difficult season of your life? What difference does remembering God’s covenant love make in how you relate to others?
2. Malachi uses the word faithless five times. What do you think it means in this passage — and how might “faithlessness” show up in relationships today (beyond marriage)?
3. Malachi teaches that broken promises wound the whole community. How have you seen this reality — in families, friendships, or even in church?
4. Why do you think God cares so deeply about faithfulness in marriage? How can married couples, divorced individuals, and singles all reflect God’s covenant love in their own contexts?
5. What does it mean to you that Jesus, the faithful Bridegroom, took the consequences of our faithlessness? How does this truth bring freedom instead of shame?
6. God says, “Guard yourselves in your spirit.” What are some practical ways we can guard our hearts from drifting into unfaithfulness — emotionally, spiritually, or relationally?
7. How might a community known for faithfulness — in marriage, friendships, and promises — stand out in today’s culture? What one step can you take this week to reflect God’s faithfulness in your own relationships?

Lamentations 3:22–23: “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.”

Prayer: Lord, we thank you for never abandoning your promises. Make us faithful people who build and model healthy relationships and communities not by our own strength, but through your Spirit. Bring healing where there has been hurt, and hope where there has been loss. Amen.”